Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader

Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.

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R, 125 min.

Directed by: Mike Nichols

Release Date: June 17, 1994

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DVD Release Date: October 21, 1997

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  • July 18, 2009
    Was Jack born to play this, I think so. He's a great wolf with his snarling smile and evil eyes. Pfeiffer is hot as hell and the two smoulder. Its a nice idea for the genre but its alittle lame to be honest. The yellow eyes of the werewolfs are good and kinda the films key contri...( read more)bution for their wolf look, but its Jacks weirdness that you wanna see.
  • April 5, 2009
    Saw this on AMC this week.

    Was a childhood favorite and still a favorite now, especially since the main characters are in the publishing industry.

    A great thriller with some of my favorite actors. Minimalistic wolf stylings are effective and probably planted the idea in my hea...( read more)d that a younger Nicholson would have made a great Logan/Wolverine.
  • February 23, 2009
    love Jack Nicholson as always!!
  • January 6, 2009
    The dialog is pretty silly especially filled with as many werewolf/dog puns as possible and always avoiding ever directly saying that the movie is about a werewolf. The romance isn't very believable as Nicholson and Pfeiffer try to play the classic couple who bickers and pretend...( read more)s to be irritated with each other until they finally fall into each others arms realizing how madly in love they are. I think Jack Nicholson's face lends itself to being a werewolf, but he never has so much makeup applied that it obscures his face, after all he's a star. James Spader doesn't give a very subtle performance as the bad guy, but the werewolf makeup works well on him too. And his features actually change a little more than Nicholson's. I thought the makeup work was very good except you don't see much of the transformations and the action/attack scenes had some weird editing tricks to hide a lot of the flaws. It was painfully obvious to me that a lot of Nicholson's character running or fighting was done by a stunt man. Nicholson mainly does some growling and heavy breathing on his closeups, but even from a distance the makeup on the stunt men is pretty bad and it took me out of the moment every time.
  • December 19, 2008
    I was actually kinda bored with this until the Spader plot twists started. That and his performance helped elevate the whole thing for me.
  • October 16, 2009
    on the edge, positives and negatives.
  • September 22, 2009
    i see once a long time ago
  • September 11, 2009
    "Inside every man there are two people-one good, one beast."
    Jack Nicholson is the only actor who can do this role.Sometimes he looks like a real WOLF.
  • September 4, 2009
    bazie badanie Jack Nicholson mahshare, ba oon ghiafeye gorgish ;)
    + bazie oon pesare ham khoob bood, vaghti akhare film gorg shod, va kami ghabltaresh tooye edareye police.
    ++ mitoonest filme kheili amightari bashe,
  • September 4, 2009
    Love this movie. Works on many levels and a has a sense of humor about itself.

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